Microsoft co-founder and former CEO Bill Gates is interviewed by host Brenda Song during a 50th Anniversary event at Microsoft headquarters, Friday, April 4, 2025, in Redmond, Wash. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond) Microsoft is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month, and co-founder Bill Gates sat down with current CEO Satya Nadella. Among all the conversations, he…
As President Trump’s tariffs continue to roil markets, former Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer says the best thing companies can do is continue to power through and invest in what they can. “The thing I would say is to make sure that you … invest your way through the tumult which is today,” he told…
Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago that opened up a new frontier in technology. Although the code that Gates printed out on a teletype machine may look crude compared to what’s powering today’s artificial intelligence platforms, it played a critical…
Microsoft founder Bill Gates recently named three key figures who supported Satya Nadella’s appointment as CEO: Gates himself, former CEO Steve Ballmer, and Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith. In a conversation with Smith, Gates reflected on the decision-making process and shared his concerns about Microsoft’s future after stepping away from day-to-day operations. During…
Microsoft recently unveiled Majorana 1, the world’s first Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) powered by a Topological Core. The chip, the company said, is designed to scale to a million qubits on a single chip. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared a post on microblogging site X stating “a couple reflections on the quantum computing breakthrough”. In…
A wave of Big Tech companies reported quarterly earnings in recent weeks — including six of the so-called Magnificent 7 firms — shortly after Chinese AI startup DeepSeek rattled the stock market as investors saw its new, cheap artificial intelligence models as an ominous sign for US tech stocks. DeepSeek’s innovations so shook the US…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Markets: Stocks were mixed for most of Wednesday but selling pressure in the S & P 500 and Nasdaq picked up at 1 p.m. ET. That’s…
DAVOS, SWITZERLAND — The weather may have been teeth-chattering along the promenade in Davos, but that didn’t stop Salesforce (CRM) co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff from firing off a few new choice words on AI rival Microsoft (MSFT). “Everybody knows that Microsoft has disappointed the world with Copilot and I mean, that’s just a repackaged…
From left, President Donald Trump, Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appear in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Jan. 21, 2025. Trump announced a joint venture to fund artificial intelligence infrastructure. Aaron Schwartz | Sipa | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft, the…
Suchir Balaji, a former employee of OpenAI and Elon Musk, CEO, X Suchir Balaji, 26-year-old former AI researcher at OpenAI, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on November 26, 2024, a day after Thanksgiving. The San Francisco Police Department confirmed that the cause of death was suicide, with no foul play suspected. Balaji’s…